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Despite all the rhetoric, Caramanlis feared that a resort to violence might jeopardize Greece's efforts to join the Common Market, a basic policy of his two-year-old regime. So he decided to limit himself to diplomacy. In addition to calling for the U.N. meeting, which convened in New York and heard the arguments of both sides, without coming to a decision, he appealed to the International Court of Justice at The Hague for a quick ruling. He also called for a conference of the heads of state of all Balkan nations. And as a final touch, he sent a Greek oil-exploration vessel, the 1,300-ton Nautilus, out on its own survey of the Aegean.
So far, the only blood spilled has been that of the two sheep.